Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.

About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.

The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently the result is a short circuit.